I posted this to YouTube and Instagram the other day:
This week I added a note to https://thesurvivalgardener.com/ that reads “This Gardening Site is NOT written by AI”.
The web is now filled with AI-generated gardening junk.
The mountains of slop are overwhelming.
A couple of weeks ago I read an article on how sites with AI cooking instructions and recipes are destroying real food and recipe blogs. When search results just give you long lists of recently posted AI droppings, it’s hard to find anything real.
My garden blog has been running since 2011.
It’s a combination of articles and journal entires, with plenty of information on growing lots of crops.
There are 3,174 posts so far.
I dropped off in my posting frequency over the last year because we were busy with other things, yet I’ve realized now how very important it is to have real, human gardening advice. With that in mind, though the blog is not really much “profit” to us, I am going to increase my output.
If you are a human and like to read human writing, stop on by.
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I LOVE your blog posts! Thanks for the terrific content. Always looking forward to more great stuff.
AMDG
So nice to find your human-written blog! I was a mom blogger in the 2000s-2010s Blogging Golden Age, and I truly miss that huge community of writers who wrote all sorts of amazing stuff. And we promoted that content via email and on these new platforms called Instagram and Pinterest, plus the more established one called Facebook Ah, the good old days when social media wasn’t toxic and filled with influencers and dominated by video…
Anyway, I found you because of your Master Gardener blog post. I am annoyed that I didn’t get into my local Master Gardener program in Massachusetts. They had a crazy amount of applicants for not a lot of spots. And I learned that the fact that I mentioned I work as a paid gardener, and would use MG knowledge to help me in my job worked *against* me, which is INSANE. I mean, how dare I earn a living by doing something I love, right?
So I’m still searching for some sort of certification program that will increase my knowledge but isn’t as expensive as going to a university. Any ideas?
Thanks for not being a robot blogger
I just wrote a post for you – thank you, Jess: https://thesurvivalgardener.com/a-good-gardening-program-that-isnt-master-gardeners/
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